What to do and see | Halong Bay | O que ver e fazer

After all the tips to get a tour and enjoy Halong Bay, here is the post about what you will actually have opportunity to do and see while you were there. The bay is amazing, a gift from nature, and deserve thousands of pictures.

Just before arriving to the harbour we stopped in a pearl factory, with an amazing bay view. There are many of them in the region and you can see how pearl cultivation happens. The process is very interesting as they forced the oysters to start producing a pearl as consequence of the injection of a strange body into their shell. There is also a store, but no budget for it, we actually bought same pearls later, near Da Nang in a shop recommended by our guide, 100 times cheaper.

One of the activities available during the cruise was kayaking in the bay. There is a small artificial island which works as kayaks harbour and they took us there to take our kayak and explore the area, it is possible to row inside a small cave, take many amazing pictures with the action cam or for the ones with no arms for row take a small boat to sail around.

So much of a sea and swim is not easy, but you should do it. There is a small beach in a nearby island (the same which has the viewpoint) and your mini boat will leave you there for a few hours. Swim because water temperature is really nice and forget the sand, you will have time to sunbath in the boat deck later on.

In the same island where you will find the small beach there is hundreds of steps till the viewpoint in the top of the island. Worth it to take them all and have a 360 degrees view to the bay. Don’t get lasy, go up! It’s an order 🙂

All the times you will spend at the boat can be filled with crazy activities which you can do or skip and doing nothing. I chose the second option of course, but there are options like fishing or have a cooking lesson to learn how to cook traditional spring rolls.

All that islands spread around the bay are like a swiss piece of cheese and are full of amazing caves. Some of them are open to visitors, and almost all the tours include one of them. We were in some of them and they are really big and colorful. I don’t love this kind of stuff but it was a pleasant time.

The colors of the bay, during sunset and sunrise are incredible. Of course, pictures here do not show it in the same way your eyes can do it. You must go there and see by yourselves and please, wake up for the sunrise, I was the only one who did it in my boat, I am sure all the others will regret if they had an idea of how nice it was.